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Sure we could endure another one. Tolkien-related posts are always welcome :) Bring 'em on! :)

Actually I read you only because of that! ;)

OK, just kidding.

Oh, really? Should I change the blog's title to Tolkien's secrets revealed, then? ;)

Random ramblings generator is no see fritz again therefore Tolkien ramblings for you :)

I suppose I could bear some more LotR. I can't say how will it affect your sanity, though. But I'm not sure whether I prefer you sane or insane anyway, so go ahead. :-)

Please write on Tolkien more, and more often.

As I understand you haven't read Silmarillion yet. I guess you will have to remedy that! I doubt Silmarillion the movie would be any good. But Hobbit the movie should be great.

Is it true that Tolkien wrote Hobbit somehow as a goodnight story for his little kids? But English is not really that easy. True they were English, but still. The English in LOTR is higher.
I remember having been reading LOTR for the very first time. I was already quite old then (19) and I had a bit similar experience as Nadezhda. It was the time of Thermodynamics for me, which was extremely though to pass with flying colors. I had only some weeks left as I opened the covers of my Lord of the Rings. I read the opening passages. Oh how dumb can one be! I shouldn't've done that, for nothing could've made me close it before the last cover. I read the book, but I didn't prepare well for my exam, so my "colors weren't much of a flight, but rather earthy ..." Do I regret it? Yes, I do. It's too late now for that exam, but I can still open LOTR now, can't I?
Anyway, having been reading that book, I still remember the tingling sensation in my front side of the head, namely of how my English vocabulary were expanding, physically, I am telling you.


"In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit ..."

Everything followed: the books, the day and night dreams dreamt, the fan clubs opened, the gigantesque film filmed, mind that, the post on this blog, and so on.

I feel somewhat connected with you now. - "Hey, what the, what's that smoke in your room!?" #@&!*())))

I for one think you should concentrate more on hidden gems [of literature]. Everybody and their dog read LotR, watched LotR and bought stick-on elven ears. Enough already.

mitja: Never fear for my sanity. I'm hardy, I'll endure. :) Anything for my readers. Or should I say ALMOST anything.

bo: I don't know about Tolkien. I'm going to do this one more post, because there is enough (fresh) material for it, but going from there on would necessarily mean repetition and I don't want that. I will read Silmarillion one day, but not in a very near future, I'm afraid. Perhaps in the summer.

As for good books, I have the (un-)fortunate inkling to start reading a very good book at a time when I should be studying. I also sometimes feels like reading a certain book and at other times I don't. I can't force myself to read it if I don't feel like it. So, the time for LOTR came this year, and maybe the time for Hobbit will come in the summer, but I can't be sure.

Oh, the smoke in my room? I was preparing smoked salmon... :)

owca: I doubt two people would be of the same mind as to what the hidden (or uncovered) gems of literature are. I have quite decided to do that one last post on LotR and then go on and read different books.

Perhaps you will like the reviews by Roger Ebert. - Who's that? Only the most cited film reviewer on the web. (To say in the "SCI-spirit".) He thinks Peter Jackson deviated from the true Tolkien, and moved the spotlight from the daring small Hobbits to the action of men and wizards. He concludes: "Jackson has steered the story into the action mainstream. To do what he has done in this film must have been awesomely difficult, and he deserves applause, but to remain true to Tolkien would have been more difficult, and braver." I would agree with him. If you like, you can read it in full here: 1, 2 and 3. Bye.

Thanks, Bo, for the links, although I was familiar with Ebert's reviews before. As I intend to post my thoughts regarding Ebert in the last LOTR post, I won't discuss it here.

I have many things going on in my life at the moment and I'm not sure when I'll find the time to write about LOTR, because as I said, I want to write about other issues as well. I do promise you'll have this one post, am just warning you that it might take a while. :)

I think that can be uderstood. Good for you, and good luck.

Your last post is good too. I got an association that I think it's good, and I am willing to share it.

Then, please, by all means, share it. :)